Powai Upmarket Residential Neighbourhood

Powai Upmarket Residential Neighbourhood

Powai Upmarket Residential Neighbourhood - Powai Drone Video in 4k Stock Footage. In 1943 Powai was comprised of five villages: Saki, Kopri, Tirandaz, Powai and Paspauli. In late 1950’s a portion of Powai was given to government of India to set up IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Bombay. It is said that the then Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, himself visited the owner of this property to motivate him to give this land on lease free of cost for this purpose. Simultaneously, a young engineer from Denmark, Søren Kristian Toubro had obtained a major contract in Mumbai. As a result, vast tracts of land were leased to him to set up what would become Larsen & Toubro. Thus, Powai is an upmarket residential neighbourhood located in the north-east Mumbai. It is situated on the banks of Powai Lake, and is bound by the hills of Vikhroli Parksite to the south-east, Chandivali to the south-west, the L.B.S. Marg (old Mumbai-Agra road) to the north-east and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park to the north beyond the lake. The Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares linking the western and eastern suburbs, passes through Powai. Powai is served by Mumbai’s only airport, located 5 km away; and by the Vikhroli and Kanjur Marg railway stations on the Central line.The Sakinaka Metro station is 2.5 km away....more : manojasrani.com